Days from announcing a commitment from Ubuntu, The Document Foundations debuts its first full, stable (and free) release of the next generation of OpenOffice - LibreOffice 3.3. Steven J. Vaughan has details on the new release and following is a gallery of some of the most important new features.

You will be able to import SVG pictures into Draw and edit them interactively.

There's a new easy-to-use dialog box for title pages.

Navigator lets you unfold one heading as usual in a tree view.

You can now have 1 million rows in a spreadsheet in Calc.

There's now a Microsoft Works import filter.

There's also a Lotus Word Pro import filter.

There are new bundled extensions, such as the Presenter View in Impress.

The is improved slide layout handling in Impress.

Here's a much improved Wordperfect import.

There's a news easy-to-find "new sheet" tab button with tabs that you can color.